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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 31/07/2026

Dear Motorsport.com I am begging you to understand that "George Russell linked" and "Guenther Steiner thinks" do not mean the same thing. It's crazy to me how Steiner being *kind of funny* on DTS now means everyone treats him -- an abject failure of a team principal -- as some kind of soothsayer.

A Motorsport.com article where the headline says "George Russell linked to potential 2028 Audi F1 switch" but then follows it with "Guenther Steiner believes George Russell may be considering..." Which is a different thing

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 28/07/2026

In Spider-Man 2, when Peter gives up being Spider-Man for a while, there's this headline. Statistically, this means Spider-Man was stopping 100K+ felonies and 400+ murders per year -- as in, one less murder per day. Hate to say it, but my guy should definitely *not* have stopped being Spider-Man.

Daily Bugle from Spider-Man 2 with the headline "Crime Up 75% - Where is Spider-Man Now?" and a big upward stonks chart visualizing just how many crimes Spider-Man isn't stopping for reasons

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 09/06/2026

Chuck, buddy, you gotta stop finding ways to make me post this every year.

CNN article with the heading "Formula One Driver Charles Leclerc visits orphanage" and the superimposed pull quote "It's heartbreaking to look into those sad, hopeless eyes" - Said one of the kids

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 09/04/2026

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A screenshot of the Hushcrasher game scope classifier tool, which is a 2D plot of game size in gigabytes versus credits count from MobyGames (log scaled), used to define games by size as Kei, Midi, AA, or AAA.

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 12/02/2026

Peak YouTube algo: Two shorts from the same MSN sketch, where the thumbnail for the second is literally just the next line of the sketch. YouTube knows what I want: 1) Brennan 2) More Brennan 3) Japanese woman playing two recorders at once with her nose* *a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

A YouTube recommendations feed where two of the three shorts in the same row are from the same Make Some Noise sketch, "The Ghost of St. Patrick's Day Past", and their thumbnails are two adjacent lines from the sketch.

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 11/11/2025

This frame from today's xkcd's What If? video hits different lol

Frame from xkcd video: a tombstone with the image of a partially disintegrated Earth with "RIP" written on it, and the epitaph "we shouldn't have turned the sun into a laser"

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 12/05/2025

Is time with the family doggo the *only* reason I spend mother's day weekend at my mom's? Of course not. But, I mean... It's *a* reason.

a portrait photo of a little black dog named Tele, with her head and front paws perched on the edge of her fancy dog bed

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 06/03/2025

Hey friends, I'll be at GDC later this month and have some open time I'd love to fill with meeting new folks! Especially if any of the descriptions in thread 🧵 apply to you, send me a DM/email, or ping me on the app, and we'll set something up! Looking forward to another great week with y'all ✌️✨

Banner image for the Game Developers Conference

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 29/01/2025

Not all good game design feels good to the player. If the character feels shitty, I'm failing to empathetically weld the player to them if I don't find an elegant way to make them feel (the right kind of) shitty, too. [note: I'm def not alone in this, but I've 100% had to die on this hill before]

Single-panel comic illustration of a person surrounded by a crowd saying "yes, you are all wrong." The image is captioned "What's a gaming opinion you firmly believe in, no matter how unpopular it might be?"

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 12/01/2025

Pro tip: when lighting/grading in UE5, you can use the HDR (Eye Adaptation) view to show a luminance histogram. By default, you'll notice it has the following color code: Blue = the target exposure Magenta = the measured exposure White = the compensated exposure* Green = the min/max exposure range

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 09/01/2025

Here's another quartet of photos from my hike last weekend, playing around with that dreamy feel in the fog:

A dreamy photo of a telephone pole flanked by two evergreen trees, blanketed in fog

A dreamy photo of a telephone pole among rolling hills, blanketed in fog

A dreamy photo of trees along a hiking path blanketed in fog

A photo from within the darkness of a bank of trees, with a small outlet of light at the end

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 07/01/2025

I have a goal this year to do 25+ hikes, with a focus on nature photography (and maybe, eventually, astrophotography). My first outing was last weekend, where a foggier-than-expected morning here in Colorado gave me an opportunity for a vibe I hadn't really tried before. Here's a few from the set:

Foggy photo of a lone tree branch on an icy pond

Foggy photo of an evergreen tree in the foreground, and soft silhouettes of others in the background

Foggy photo of a lone evergreen tree beside a hiking trail

Foggy photo of a broken fence beside a hiking trail

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 05/01/2025

Some posts will be gamedev (open-source tools I want to share, tutorials I want to make, etc.), but in light of being a *real human bean*, a lot will just be me. e.g., Another of my goals in 2025 is to do more nature photography; tomorrow I'll post some from my hike yesterday; here's a peek. (4/5)

A dreamy photo of a hiking trail in Colorado, blanketed in early-morning fog, with a lone evergreen tree beside the path.

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 05/01/2025

Wanted to take a moment to reintro myself. Always been a bit of a lurker on socials, but I have a goal this year to engage more with my communities, so: I'm Parker. I'm a game director and dev with a passion for building systemic, empathetically impactful experiences. And this is my face 🧵 (1/5)

A selfie of a dorky lil game developer giving a thumbs-up while wearing an inertial motion capture suit and gloves.

A selfie of that same game developer in the stands of the Belgian Grand Prix from a family trip around his 30th birthday

A selfie of that dang game developer again, skiing with family

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 26/06/2024

I'll be sharing more soon about what's next for me. Leaving the place that has been my home for the past 4+ years is a somber moment, but I'm also buoyed by the excitement of all the amazing people out there that I may have the privilege of working with next. Talk again soon✌️

Photo inside the Serenity Forge offices of some of the Colorado and leadership teams.

Photo outside the Serenity Forge offices of some of the Colorado and leadership teams.

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 24/03/2024

This was my first #GDC, and a special one after 2 years head-down on an amazing new thing I can't wait to share 👀 But of all the new experiences this week, the very best part was getting to hug a couple of my teammates that I'd never met in person. This is what it's all about♥️

Two game development teammates, one of whom has far superior sunglasses.

Two game development teammates, one of whom has a far superior beard.

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Parker Davis @parkerhdavis.com · 28/09/2023

As with all my attempts at favoriting, the further you go down the list past the top 5, the more it's just a mush of "things that are brain-sticky right now" and the exact ranks are just noise. But man, just thinking about all of these... Games are so special, you guys. We're so lucky to have them.

A list of twenty-five of Parker's favorite games, made on topster. The top games are The Last of Us series, Control, SOMA, and Bloodborne.

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